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Two of those flashlights found in Glendale were actually improvised explosive devices.
For the strange public-service announcement of the day, the Glendale Police Department urges that you not pick up any random flashlights you find around the ci...

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If you've heard Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's explanations for why negotiations with the Justice Department broke down, he makes it sound as if Attorney General Eric Holder himself wants to be the new sheriff.
It's the proposed Justice Depart...

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In early March, shortly after the sex-and-'deportation' scandal that enveloped Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu hit the news, his chief deputy, Steve Henry, fulfilled a speaking engagement in Las Vegas at the annual convention of the Western States S...

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Juan Garcia
Juan Garcia -- who's accused of killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old son in February -- turned himself in to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents near the border crossing in Lukeville on Friday, the Pima County Sheriff's Departmen...

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"The first five, 10 minutes is obviously going to be a huge part of momentum swings in the series," Smith told reporters on Saturday, according to a transcript provided by the NHL. "When you start off on the right note with a good first 10 minutes, g...

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What may come as a surprise is his explanation why he's dropping out of the race, which happens to exclude anything about the abuse-of-power allegations from his Mexican ex-boyfriend, the allegations stemming from his time atop a Massachusetts school...

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Rachel Alexander, acolyte of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, has filed a notice of claim against Maricopa County for $67,000 to cover the legal fees of the appeal of her law-license suspension.
Alexander, along with Thomas and former ...

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Babeu, as our colleague Monica Alonzo reported this morning, dropped his Congressional bid, citing, uh, personnel issues at the Sheriff's Office. And then announced that he would be running for sheriff instead of his (metaphorically speaking) butt-bo...

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The battle between supporters of Tempe mayoral candidates Mark Mitchell and Michael Monti over whether "your" public employees can endorse people in campaign signs seemed to end with City Manager Charlie Meyer's ruling that it was all pretty much OK....

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What we were expecting.
When the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office announced yesterday that a six-month "bootlegging" investigation ended with 10 arrests, we were thinking it was a trip back to prohibition, involving Tommy guns, fedoras, and the phr...

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Of some of the more controversial ideas tossed around the Arizona Legislature, the "birther" bill is the most popular to voters, according to a recent poll.
The Morrison Institute for Public Policy quizzed Arizona voters on five of the more controve...

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Some would say that Grant Goodman caught a break yesterday when a disciplinary hearing panel suspended him from the practice of law for only two years after finding that the Phoenix attorney violated several Rules of Professional Conduct--exploiting...

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Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu dropped out of his Congressional race early this morning and plans instead to run for re-election as sheriff -- despite recent assurances by his camp that he planned to continue his Fourth District run.
Babeu would ...

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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was sued by the Justice Department yesterday over racial-discrimination claims, and not surprisingly, Arpaio had a little more than two cents to give to everyone yesterday.
His responses ranged from the Justice Dep...

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Lisa Aubuchon has managed to eke out a three-week stay of her disbarment.
After being told by the state Supreme Court's Disciplinary Judge that her "staggering mountain of wrongdoing" means she would be officially stripped of her law license today, ...

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The Pinal County Sheriff's Office is short one of these bad boys right now, as well as a Taser and a Glock pistol.
A sergeant with the Pinal County Sheriff's Office does not have his automatic rifle, pistol, or Taser after the weapons were stolen...

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The lawsuit addresses that "culture of bias" the Justice Department's been alleging since it released its findings in December, claiming that Arpaio's office conducts the worst racial-profiling practices it's seen.
The introduction of the lawsuit su...

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Marion Patterson III
Marion Patterson III will soon learn his fate for his role in the 2010 shooting death of Arizona State University student Zachary Marco.
Patterson, one of two men charged in Marco's murder, pleaded guilty to second-degree mu...

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The St. Louis Cardinals may have lost Albert Pujols to the Los Angeles Angels through free agency (i.e. "taking care of his family"), but this team surely should contend for a repeat World Series
Swept by Redbirds.
The Cards massacred...